Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.