A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

Women's weapon, water-drops.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.