He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

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