I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.