One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her, but whatever it was she played it for all it was worth. She was capricious, exacting, unreasonable. She complained from morning to night. George was expected to wait on her, hand and foot and everything he did was always wrong and he got cursed for it. Most men, I'm fully convinced, would have hit her with a hatchet long ago.

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

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

The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.