Great Throughts Treasury

"What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?"

"Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way."

"When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard."

"Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

"Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature."

"Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines."

"Write what you like; there is no other rule."

"You sold a story last week, said Pettit, about a gun fight in an Arizona mining town in which the hero drew his Colt's .45 and shot seven bandits as fast as they came in the door. Now, if a six-shooter could?Oh, well, said I, that's different. Arizona is a long way from New York. I could have a man stabbed with a lariat or chased by a pair of chaparreras if I wanted to, and it wouldn't be noticed until the usual error-sharp from around McAdams Junction isolates the erratum and writes in to the papers about it."