The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

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.

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.