One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

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.

Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.