So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action..

I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours..

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

It is more than possible; it is probable..

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other..

"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any c….

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home..

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

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of ….

My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to….

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all..

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession..

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain..

You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad..

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

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….

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was e….

It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of t….

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate..

His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that e….

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the n….