My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.