The stock actor is a stage calamity

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject