Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.