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.

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.