She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

Things never come when they are expected.