Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

We have much to hope from the flowers.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.