There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

You see, but you do not observe.