But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.