It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

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

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

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.