Sublime

‘Somebody,’ said Jacques, ‘your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour—and in the oddest places!—for the lack of it.’

The physician spoke with confidence. He was a man, after all. He had no reason to think he would not be believed.

A change of heart is in the making. The journey will demand much, which is why so few men even take the first step. And when the going becomes too hard, a man may stop taking risks and settle for where he is. He stops because there is a force, a bully at work making attempts on his Life. But as Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, “When a resolute young fe

“Hold sacred your capacity for understanding. For in it is all, that our ruling principle won’t allow anything to enter that is either inconsistent with nature or with the constitution of a logical creature. It’s what demands due diligence, care for others, and obedience to God.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 3.9

All life is an experiment. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Show me that the good life doesn’t consist in its length, but in its use, and that it is possible—no, entirely too common—for a person who has had a long life to have lived too little.”

saith:

"I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual — that's to say, you handled it fairly well."

when Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him casually to what type Frankland's skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive. I have not lived for years with Sherlock Holmes for nothing.