Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

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 are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.