It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

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

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

I have taken to living by my wits.