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.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.