It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

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

You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.