Publisher's Synopsis
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius." "Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again." "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." "Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her." "It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?" "Birdy Edwards is here. I am Birdy Edwards!" "Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?" Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
