A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

The soul is swayed by the waters.