There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

We put our love where we have put our labor.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.