One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

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