[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

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.)

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.