Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?