A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience..

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts..

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him..

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry..

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack ….

East is East, and West is San Francisco.

You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed haysee….

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi..

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some ben….

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else..

The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning ma….