As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

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

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

He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.