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!

... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.

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.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.