Book: The Mystery Of Marie Roget

As past experience has repeatedly shown, and as true philosophy will always show, a significant, if not overwhelming, part of the truth is revealed through circumstances that at first glance are completely extraneous.

The dissatisfaction with the police, which never dies down in Paris, has managed to lead several times to street riots.

Few even the most rational person has not happened at times, with vague excitement, to almost believe in the supernatural, faced with a coincidence so amazing that the mind refuses to recognize it as a mere game of chance.

There are ideal combinations of events that unfold in parallel with what is happening. They rarely match. People and circumstances, as a rule, distort the ideal sequence of events to the same extent that it is distorted, and their consequences will not be what they could be. So with the Reformation: Lutheranism appeared instead of Protestantism.

... the jurisprudence of any country shows that the law, as soon as he becomes a science and a system, it ceases to be justice. It is easy to verify the errors to which a blind devotion to the principle of classification has led the common law, observing how often the legislature had to intervene to restore justice, which it managed to lose.

When the seal just to be a common opinion (no matter how justified it may be), it does not ensure yourself of success with the crowd.

... No reasonable person can deny daizy Nature and her God. It is also a fact that the latter, creating the first, may at will control it and change it. I say "willingly" because it is about will, not about power, as it believes crazy logic. Of course, God can change his laws, but that we insult him, inventing the need for such changes. These laws from the beginning was designed to embrace any opportunity that only harbored the future. For God only NOW.

The impression you keep about the identity of a person, very difficult to define. Each person learns their friends, but very rarely is able to logically explain how he recognizes them.

I have noticed that in search of truth, logic finds its way on the deviations from the usual and commonplace and, in cases like this, should not ask, "what happened?" "what happened is unusual, that hasn't happened before?".

I, of course, there is no need to tell you, said Dupin, after reading my notes, that this is a much more complicated case than the murders in the Rue Morgue from which it differs in one very important respect, as it represents though is brutal, but ordinary crime. There is nothing out of the ordinary. Note that for this reason, all thought that to reveal it would be easy, whereas it was his mediocrity and is the main stumbling block.

Do remember that our Newspapers think mainly about how to create a sensation, and not on how to promote the discovery of truth. The latter becomes their task only if it contributes to the achievement of the first and their main goal.