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.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .