It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

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

Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.