Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.