“A large number merely strange”

“To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.”

“The control of a large force is the same principleas the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.”

“The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.”

“Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.”

“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.”