There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.