Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.