Steel True, Blade Straight.

It Is Not My Intention To Be Fulsome, But I Confess That I Covet Your Skull.

You Mentioned Your Name As If I Should Recognize It, But Beyond The Obvious Facts That You Are A Bachelor, A Solicitor, A Freemason, And An Asthmatic, I Know Nothing Whatever About You.

Never Trust To General Impressions, My Boy, But Concentrate Yourself Upon Details.

It Is A Great Thing To Start Life With A Small Number Of Really Good Books Which Are Your Very Own.

It Isn't True That The Laws Of Nature Have Been Capriciously Disturbed; That Snakes Have Talked; That Women Have Been Turned Into Salt; That Rods Have Brought Water Out Of Rocks.