A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

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.

It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.