“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”

“It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.”

“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

“The men who knew that he knew what he knew had found him”

“The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.”

“I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.”

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line of steel runs through the heather of no-man’s-land, and the holiday-maker claims the valleys for his own. But this busyness is but of yesterday, and not ten years ago the fields lay quiet to the gaze of placid beasts and the wandering stars. This story I have culled from the grave of an old fashion, and set down for the love of a great soul and the poetry of life.”