Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.