We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.