“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
“You cast another bewildered look at the books around you (or, rather: it was the books that looked at you, with the bewildered gaze of dogs who, from their cages in the city pound, see a former companion go off on the leash of his master, come to rescue him)”
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees whose shade you never expect to sit under.”
“No matter how many leaves would the tree of your soul have in front of the intense heat in the words of Time in this world, they can never shade the eternity lost inside you.”
“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”