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.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.