If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are..

Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed….

Where there is no imagination there is no horror..

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….

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

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a ….

To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the….

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he..

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..

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent..

His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star..

How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!.

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free m….

You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious..

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

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

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for yo….

If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, ….

Dogs don't make mistakes..

To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the….

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my n….