One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Believe the best of everybody.

No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.