I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.