... 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.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

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