It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air..

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….

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit….

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!.

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 ….

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my….

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

Violence recoils on the violent..

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman..

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation..

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable..

Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the thing….

I love and am loved by a better man than he..

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times..

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

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for ….

We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than….

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards..

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….