It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.