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.

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

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.

The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.