The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. - Robert Benchley

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not. Both classes are extremely unpleasant to meet socially, leaving practically no one in the world whom one cares very much to know.