It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war..

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime..

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it..

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being..

...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and ….

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me..

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 o….

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor.

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied..

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and….

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside..

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot….

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth..

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important..

When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged….

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so..

I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon ….

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . ..

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety..

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, th….

I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger ….