What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
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.
Think! With thought, all problems can be solved.
Things are simple as a rule.
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!
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 spoken word and the written—there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the original meaning.
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
