“It must be a wild place.”

 

“Yes, the setting is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men –”

 

“Then you are yourself inclining to the supernatural explanation.”

 

“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”

 

From an exchange between Holmes and Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles”