If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.

Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.