We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.