The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.