You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.