There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and mar….

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal..

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece o….

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?.

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..

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….

I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical p….

If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's..

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticat….

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twen….

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 ….

The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey..

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public..

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life i….

He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather..

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence..

It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it..

A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?.

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships..

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard..

In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elec….