As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind and the lightning. To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.