"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

The past is the father of the present.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.