There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

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.