Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.