Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

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.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?