The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.