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.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

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

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.