There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

One must wait till it comes.

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.