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

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.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

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.

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.

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.