Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men

What do you paint when you paint on a wall? Do you paint just anything at all? Will there be any doves, or a tree in fall? Or a hunting scene, like an English hall?

I paint what I see.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know. In a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

There is about Boston a certain reminiscent and classical tone, suggesting an authenticity and piety which few other American cities possess.

The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

Be obscure clearly.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Only by his action can a man make (himself/his life) whole . . . . You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he maycommunicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.