Perhaps There Is No Gift Of Nature

The Only Sure Thing About Luck Is That It Will Change.

Each Lost Day Has Its Patron Saint!

One Big Vice In A Man Is Apt To Keep Out A Great Many Smaller Ones.

Crude At First [the Short Story] Received A Literary Polish In The Press, But Its Dominant Quality Remained. It Was Concise And Condense, Yet Suggestive. It Was Delightfully Extravagant - Or A Miracle Of Understatement

It Would Seem Evident, Therefore, That The Secret Of The American Short Story Was The Treatment Of Characteristic American Life, With Absolute Knowledge Of Its Peculiarities And Sympathy With Its Method.