We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.

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

Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

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

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.