“I love and am loved by a better man than he.”

“If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.”

“I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.”

“For the love of his art”

“I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment.‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.”

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”

“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”