Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.