- Rabbi Wiseman: [sitting in a cell] The Sanhedrin was the highest court and ruling council of the ancient Jewish Nation. It had once sat in Jerusalem and later, after the Diaspora, in Baghdad and Alexandria. It last sat before the fall of Roman Empire.
- Mr. J. Singer: [reproachfully] It never sat in Stoke Newington.
- Heinrich Arturstein: One never knows if one is capable of courage, or cowardice. I am happy that I discovered I was capable of the former.
