A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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 the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.