Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Violence recoils on the violent.

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

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

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?