Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.