"Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's."

"Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark."

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

"A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows."

"Take it from me — he's got the goods."

"Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who wer…"

"One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas."

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates …"

"The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men — who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They inven…"

"What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?"