Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

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.

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

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

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.