If Dreyfus had been convicted in England, it is probable that no voice would ever have been raised in his favour; it is absolutely certain that there would never have been a second trial.

A keen sense of abstract justice is only to be found in conjunction with a rich fount of imaginative sympathy.

The English are too self-absorbed to take much interest in their neighbours' affairs, too busy to care for abstract questions of right or wrong.
Before the trial of Oscar Wilde I still believed that in a criminal case rough justice would be done in England.

The bias of an English judge, I said to myself, is always in favour of the accused.

It is an honourable tradition of English procedure that even the Treasury barristers should state rather less than they can prove against the unfortunate person who is being attacked by all the power and authority of the State.