I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.