A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman."

[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.