I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination..

In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons..

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to..

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting..

Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more will he adore you and the m….

Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger….

London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the….

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window..

I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like..

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending..

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alo….

The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a ….

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding..

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness..

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS..

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end….

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself..

London is on the whole the most possible form of life..

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art..

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the beli….

Things are always different from what they might be..