There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible..

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic….

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the wh….

We have much to hope from the flowers..

It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he….

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner..

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!.

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit..

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you..

Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned ….

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life..

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt..

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul..

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us..

He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her ….

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination..

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished..

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the do….

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be der….

The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a me….

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?.