We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

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.

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.

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.