He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.