it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.