There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.