The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

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 Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.