We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.