Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'