What a lovely thing a rose is!

You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.