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And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."
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| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels |
Heap on more wood!--the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
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| Sir Walter Scott | Marmion |
"As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Red-Headed League |
"You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly correct than the official force."
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Red-Headed League |
"O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, and steep my senses in forgetfulness?"
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| William Shakespeare | Henry IV, Part Two |
For gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.
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| Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby |
"Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers. I wish we could be brought to consider this, and remembering natural obligations a little more at the right time, talk about them a little less at the wrong one."
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| Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby |
The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open. But no hand was there, and it opened no more.
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| Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby |
The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.
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| Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby |
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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| George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss |
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