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

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

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…

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

- Mary Roberts Rinehart