Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

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

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

You kill the biggest possible resource when you waste time

The best of my essence is shown to those who value my energy and appreciate my love, some would call it selfish, I call it selective.

There are models who don't eat. That's worrisome - you need the right amount of gas to get going.

Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner.

I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill.

Accepting responsibility is the fulcrum point for succeeding at anything.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.