Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.