"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

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.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.