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

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

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!

The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil