It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.