One must wait till it comes.

And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.