her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.

No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?