Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

Remember that I too am mortal.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.