It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

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