You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

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

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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?