I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

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

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.