Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?
I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.
Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.