If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

‎A change of work is the best rest.

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

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.

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.