An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.