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

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

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

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

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.