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

My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.