Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

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

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.