Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.