What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the Ego, so that the child who has fantasied himself a murderer ends by becoming a Loeb or a Leopold. The creative Imagination works outwards, steadily increasing the gap between the visioned and the actual, till this becomes the great gulf fixed between art and nature. Few writers of crime-stories become murderers--if any do, it is not the result of identifying themselves with their murderous heroes.