Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

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

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.