…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.