"Markheim" Quotes

The man who comes into my house to trade, and brings his own life and the lives of his wife and children in his hand, has set his value upon a piece of brass or a half a handful of silver; I know him for a fool or a thief.

The thought was yet in his mind when, in a turning of the street, he beheld a policeman looking at him closely.

There is nothing so absurd as a young man without an aim.

It is a good thing to have a son.

We must not judge too hardly, we must not be too eager to set down as evil what is the natural outcome of our own faults.

If you do not believe in your own judgment, why should you hope that others will do so?

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.

There are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

It is a good rule to forgive the man who is sorry for his fault.