Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for… — Arthur Conan Doyle

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

It is not so impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this, I have endeavoured in my case to do.