The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?