Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.