The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.