All The Mistakes I Ever Made Were

A Too Constant Preoccupation With Money May Seem To Indicate The Lack Of A Proper Sense Of Moral Values, But [let] Those Who Have Always Had Money . . . Be Without It For A While, And They Will Soon Discover How Quickly It Becomes Their Chief Concern.

Boredom Is The Keynote Of Poverty — Of All Its Indignities, It Is Perhaps The Hardest Of All To Live With — For Where There Is No Money There Is No Change Of Any Kind, Not Of Scene Or Of Routine. To Be Able To Break Out Of Its Dark Brown Sameness.

Without Vanity A Writer's Work Is Tepid, And He Must Accept His Vanity As Part Of His Stock In Trade And Live With It As One Of The Hazards Of His Profession.

New York Is Not A City To Return To In Defeat.

The Only Credential The City Asked Was The Boldness To Dream. For Those Who Did, It Unlocked Its Gates And Its Treasures, Not Caring Who They Were Or Where They Came From.