When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.