In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.

There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.