There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .