It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

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.