it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.