For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

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.