It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.