There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

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