Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.