Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.