I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.