The fair sex is your department.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.