Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.