The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)

by Agatha Christie

One cannot tell everything. Therefore one selects. At the time of a murder people select what they think is important. But quite frequently they think wrong!”

“God’s in His heaven. All’s right with the world.”

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man’s to prevent him from thinking.

“Patience. Everything arranges itself, given time.”