The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.