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.

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

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

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.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.