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.

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

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.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

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