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

Old men make wars that young men may die.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

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.

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.

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.