When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror. 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. There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.