It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

Plain lies are dangerous.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.