It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are but the last traces in a less philosophical age of the ideas which Plato taught his disciples existed in the spiritual world.