The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.