The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

the possession of power brings on madness.

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.