It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the pen….

Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, wer….

The soul is swayed by the waters..

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved ….

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See ho….

It is all in the way of professional experience..

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it..

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him..

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge..

His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous sci….

The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without ….

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'.

One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curva….

It is quite a three-pipe problem..

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman a….

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn..

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace..

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and tha….

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the ….

On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement a….

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank..