I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

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.

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.