His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

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.

It is more than possible; it is probable.

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.

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.