You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a chance of arrest?' 'Not in a good cause.' 'Oh, the cause is excellent!' 'Then I am your man.' 'I was sure that I might rely on you.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.