"The simple life of our grandmothers is a thing of the past. For the woman of to-day each year life grows more complex…"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"Shatter her beauteous breast ye may; The Spirit of England none can slay! Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul's, — Deem…"

"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English…"

"Aux États-Unis la nature, comme la société, n'est pas toujours belle, mais elle est toujours grande."

"Since the normal tendency is to simplify, to trivialize, to eliminate the unfamiliar word or construction, the rule i…"

"Although Champollion was an avowed revolutionary and an enthusiastic Bonapartist, one of his earliest discoveries dis…"

"To understand a great movement in the world of thought or action, it is usually necessary to approach it on its histo…"

"There’s a part of me in every I write, whether it’s male or female, because everything has to go through me. Everythi…"

"Success did come to me later, but that was okay, I could feel myself getting better with each story or book. Age does…"