An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

It is more than possible; it is probable.

It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.