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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‘don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.’

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn’t relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.