Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.
There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
Books are a habit-forming drug.
there is evil everywhere under the sun.
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.