In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don’t know how to wade through manure.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

Do you know, Watson,” said he, “that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You...

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.