Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me." "People have been wrongly condemned before now." "Exactly; simply because I wasn't there." "I never thought of that.

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

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