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.

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

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

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

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.