Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.