My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.