We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.
Virtue doesn’t pay.
Two people rarely see the same thing.
To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.
Things are simple as a rule.
There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c’est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!
There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion the important thing is to clear the innocent.
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one’s own particular race is fairly widespread.
The happiness of one man and woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
The body – the cage – is everything of the most respectable – but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
