Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

One does what one can, not what one cannot.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.