One has only to let the criminal talk – sooner or later he will tell you everything.
Observe all men; thy self most.
Nothing can be so misleading as observation.
Like Men and Women Shadows walk Upon the Hills Today – With here and there a mighty Bow Or trailing Courtesy To Neighbors doubtless of their own Not quickened to perceive Minuter landscape as Ourselves And Boroughs where we live –
It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.[The Canterville Ghost]
It is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.
If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the Wren; and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur – and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass that the Guest leaves.
