Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

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

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.