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

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

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