I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to sh…

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some…

One might say that every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure; a cadence, a quality of voice that is ex…

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdote…

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.