While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

I love and am loved by a better man than he.

The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

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

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.