Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

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."

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.