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.

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.