My father, to whom I owe so much, never told me the difference between right and wrong; now I think that's why I remain so greatly in his debt.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.