The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

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

Steel True, Blade Straight.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

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.

We have much to hope from the flowers.