When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

The only people who are not in awe of Emerson's powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it; so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. 'Proceed, my dear,' I said apologetically.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!