Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
summer ocean dark
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my head, as light and fragile as a soap-bubble, and drifted upon its stately way.
spiritual men intellectual
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
girl sweet ocean
It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway than were to be found in Brest harbour. But her frigates and corvettes still scoured the ocean, closely followed ever by those of her rival. At the uttermost ends of the earth these dainty vessels, with sweet names of girls or of flowers, mangled and shattered each other for the honour of the four yards of bunting which flapped from the end of their gaffs.
wise ocean anchors
How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!
men brain
A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
law snakes rocks
It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.
data temptation form
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
brother hate hot
Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.
focus devil nucleus
Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil
home crime difficult
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
men air noses
It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
beautiful horse humorous
A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.
uncles humorous successful
My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.
humorous sarcasm advancement
An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .