Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.