When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

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

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.