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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
“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 is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.”
There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
‘Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.’ ”9
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.
‘Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca.’
