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

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

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!

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

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

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.