The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.