Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?