Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

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

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.