A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation..

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light..

It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very br….

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special f….

I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently..

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence ….

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done..

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elem….

If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive..

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital..

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons..

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one i….

‎A change of work is the best rest..

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love..

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before..

Violence is sometimes a duty..

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell..

Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot..

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought..

You see, but you do not observe..

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius..