His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.