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

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

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.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.