"Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and keep your eyes peeled.