What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

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

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.