Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

I want to see what life makes of you. One thing is certain - it can't spoil you. It may pull you about horribly, but I defy it to break you up.

Let us be vulgar and have some fun, let us invite the President.

The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species.

She’s the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She’s the self-made girl!(…)Well, to begin with, the self-made girl’s a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn’t self-made at all. We all help to make her, we take such an interest in her.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.