crime

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry, too.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.

. . . all men make mistakes. But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime you should dwell.

'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.