There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.