What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

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.

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

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

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

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