Very few of us are what we seem.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.