The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

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

Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.