Occupation: Writer Birth: September 11, 1862 Death: June 5, 1910
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the….
Women's weapon, water-drops..
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction..
You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed haysee….
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi..
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows..
Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a w….
He studied cities as women study their reflections..
By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal..
Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts….
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature..
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady..
Write what you like; there is no other rule..
If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York.
Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham..
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of..
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships..
Bolivar cannot carry double.
[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crac….
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may ….
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.