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.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

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

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different