I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!