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

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

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

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.