The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

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.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to this adjective had a most remarkable effect upon its price, and the advantages gained may possibly be more sentimental than real. Still, it is soothing to me to know that I have slits in my staircase through which I can discharge arrows; and there is a sense of power in the fact of possessing a complicated apparatus by means of which I am enabled to pour molten lead upon the head of the casual visitor.

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?