It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.
Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.