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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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..

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

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.….

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….

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