What one man can invent, another can discover.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

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

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.

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

Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.