There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence.
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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.
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime you should dwell.
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
