It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

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

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?