Anne saw his attention focus on her. It still wasn’t the look a man gave an attractive woman: more like the… — Harry Turtledove

Of all the sins in this world, which is more unforgivable than the sin of not having enough money? None I can think of.

“God bless you, suh, for what you done there.”

“I don’t believe in God, anymore than I believe in Mother Goose,” Darrow said. “Foolish notion. But I do believe in justice, and you deserve that. Everyone deserves that.”

Some people had a vested interest in trouble. If it looked as if calm threatened to break out, people like that would do anything they could to thwart it.