Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.