The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. – Heywood Broun
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. – Heywood Broun
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. – Heywood Broun
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. – Heywood Broun
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive — besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Stuart was an early riser: he was almost always the first person up in the morning. He liked the feeling of being the first one stirring; he enjoyed the quiet rooms with the books standing still on the shelves, the pale light coming in through the windows, and the fresh smell of day. – E.B. White, Stuart Little, 1945