On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
Arthur Conan DoyleEducation never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
Arthur Conan DoyleWe surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
Arthur Conan Doyle...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.
Arthur Conan Doyle