... 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.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.