She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men.
A forced marriage is no marriage.
Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details. My friend Watson could tell you that I spent a whole morning in that exercise. It is no easy matter, and requires a strong and practiced arm.
Crime is common. Logic is rare.
To underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.
Era, por tanto, libre como una alondra -es decir, todo lo libre que se puede ser con un ingreso diario de once chelines y medio-.
Nuestra mente debe ser tan libre como la misma naturaleza”- Sherlock Holmes, Estudio en escarlata.
Stand with me here upon the terrace, for it may be the last quiet talk that we shall ever have.
What a blind beetle I have been, not to draw my conclusion. And what is your conclusion? Only that it is a remarkable cow which walks, canters, and gallops.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.