A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.