The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

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

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

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 morning and find their throats cut.

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

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

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

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

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

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

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Be a success but never forget to be kind. Success has no meaning if your heart is empty of kindness.

Time define the moment.

I simply hate the people who have no good words for anyone, who is impolite & who don't respect anyone.

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

To the eye of failure success is an accident.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.