But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.