Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. What does Dr. James Mortimer, the man of science, ask of Sherlock Holmes, the specialist in crime? Come in!

When will you be pleased to dine, Mr. Holmes?' Mrs. Hudson asked. 'Seven-thirty, the day after to-morrow' said he.

If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now--a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

The way I design generally is very much travel-oriented because that is my life. That's why I make clothes that are so light and so easy to pack and a little bit seasonless.