In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

It is more than possible; it is probable.

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.