You Cannot Be Both Fashionable And First-rate

What Pursuit Is More Elegant Than That Of Collecting The Ignominies Of Our Nature And Transfixing Them For Show, Each On The Bright Pin Of A Polished Phrase?

But Why Wasn't I Born, Alas, In An Age Of Adjectives; Why Can One No Longer Write Of Silver-shedding Tears And Moon-tailed Peacocks, Of Eloquent Death, Of The Negro And Star-enameled Night?

It Is A Matter Of Life And Death For Married People To Interrupt Each Others Stories; For It They Did Not, They Would Burst.

The Great Art Of Writing Is The Art Of Making People Real To Themselves With Words.

All Reformers, However Strict Their Social Conscience, Live In Houses Just As Big As They Can Pay For.