Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

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

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.