Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

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.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.