For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.
... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.
too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.
Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.