... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.

It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.