Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children--children lie all the time.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks other people have none either is the secret of the failure that …

On amplifie egalement le malheur et le boneur, nous ne sommes jamais ni si malheureux, ni si heureux qu'on le dit.

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble, …