While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely blot out the evil past but in the most literal sense "makes it good."

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

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.

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