It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.

It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.