Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.