"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's"

"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago"

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night"

"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can"

"He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press"

"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots"

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do"

"I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met"

"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night"

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"