It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.

Enemies are an indication of character.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

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