When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

You know my methods. Apply them.

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

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.