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

"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

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

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.