Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

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.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.

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

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

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