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.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely blot out the evil past but in the most literal sense "makes it good."

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.