The Professor snorted like an angry buffalo. "You really touch the limit," said he. "You enlarge my view of the possible. Cerebral paresis! Mental inertia! Wonderful!"

You have probably never heard of Professor Moriarty? said he.

The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

Is it not? Is it not? Breadth of view, my dear Mr. Mac, is one of the essentials of our profession. The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.