Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renoun….

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man..

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people..

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money..

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation..

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window..

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over..

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write..

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen..

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life..

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church..

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you..

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys.….

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late..

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule..

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter..

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some….

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses..

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play..

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust..