Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

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

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

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

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

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.