it shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere. - O. Henry

I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist.

O’Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905)

the crystal air, with some of the efficacy of faith, seemed to remove the mountains almost to the sea, bringing them so near that one might count the scarred glades on their wooded sides.

The old couple were childless — they had only a married daughter living in Brooklyn.