He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

Steel True, Blade Straight.

Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.