Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

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.

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

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

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

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