The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.

the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

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.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

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.