I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.