I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

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

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

We have much to hope from the flowers.

I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.