Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

Violence is sometimes a duty.