To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.