The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.

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.

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.