Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

It was a little skirmish across a century.

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.