“I was born for better things.”

“Justice is a mighty fine thing.”

“Useful thing a warrant. Murder and theft change their names if you have one.”

“I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who would wish to see a companion gasp his last on a jolting cart? We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full meed of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.”

“The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.”

“Wickedness is too common in the world for us to think much of why and wherefore.It is more natural to ask about the rarer thingand wonder why people sometimes do good.”

“Kneading memory makes the dough of fiction; which we know, sometimes never stops rising.”