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, ….

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….

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?.

Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “Y….

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction..

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an e….

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective….

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holme….

Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but neve….

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last..

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty..

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some ….

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles..

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me..

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning..

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any ….