I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.