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

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

The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

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.

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

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues