He knew better than any man that there is little danger of men who really know anything of that naked and homeless responsibility seeking it too often or indulging it too much.

The conscientiousness of the law-abider is nothing in its terrors to the conscientiousness of the conscientious law-breaker.

Browning had once, for what he seriously believed to be a greater good, done what he himself would never have had the cant to deny, ought to be called deceit and evasion.

Such a thing ought never to come to a man twice.

If he finds that necessity twice, he may, I think, be looked at with the beginning of a suspicion.