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

Steel True, Blade Straight.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.