It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of… - Arthur Conan Doyle

Some people without possesing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.