To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

One must wait till it comes.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

You know my methods. Apply them.

His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.