"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel."

When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.

Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.