I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

Placetne, magistra?" "Placet.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.