Quotes by Melville Davisson Post

"It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli."

"It is a world," he said, "filled with the mysterious joinder of accident!" "It is a world," replied Abner, "filled with the mysterious justice of God!"

"The criminal law is a machine so rough and dangerous that we can use it only with every safety device attached."