It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

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

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

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

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!

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?