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

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

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

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.

I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.

Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.