Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.” “A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.” “You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

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