The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculation.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.
You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.
There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
The setting is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.
The more outre and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
