We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

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

Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.