There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.