When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

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.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

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.