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

Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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.

It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.