His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.