The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.