I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with succ….

I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spri….

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive..

Where there's a will there's a detective story..

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves..

A living gale is better than a dead calm..

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life..

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it..

When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the p….

I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of thes….

I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the sh….

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements..

Society's the mother of convention..

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the sure….

At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature..

You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake..

Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out..

'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!.

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few..

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk a….