A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

... 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.