It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

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 old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.