The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

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

Up with the other one,” ordered the burglar. “You might be amphibious and shoot with your left. You can count two, can’t you? Hurry up, now.

Knowledge is a strong stream of water turned on us through a hose. It disturbs our roots.

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

She wore life as a rose in her bosom.

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.