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.

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

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.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

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

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.