The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.