Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.