Love so seldom means happiness.

It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.