Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.