It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

What a lovely thing a rose is!

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.