 A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. |
| When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. |
| Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. |
| I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. Topics: Children |
| There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. |
| When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. |
| His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. |
| I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. |
| It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. |
| A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. |
| Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. |
| Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. |
| London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. |
| It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. |
| Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. |
| Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. |
| We can't command our love, but we can our actions. |
| Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person. |
| I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. |
| Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. |
