“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. ”

“Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.”

“Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.”

“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.”

“One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.”

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ”