Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

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

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

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