To be watchful, I decided, was my business. And I could not get rid of the feeling that I might soon have cause for all my vigilance.

You don't know old Charles as I know him. He's got into a queer set, and there's no knowing what mischief he's up to. He's perfectly capable of starting a revo…

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

He was a bad acquaintance for a placid, sedentary soul like me, for though he could work like a Trojan when the fit took him, he was never at the same job very…

On my expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die. It simply would not have happened. It would have been a disaster from our…

Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.

Nie chce, ale musze. (often written Nie chcem, ale muszem. to underline the accent)