It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

Violence is sometimes a duty.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

Steel True, Blade Straight.

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.