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

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!

The fair sex is your department.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.