“Be sure thy sin will find thee out.”

“Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.”

“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”

“It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. -The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)”

“Oh no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.”