War is the continuation of politics by other means.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
In a good mystery novel, the reader should feel both entertained and challenged throughout the reading process.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.