There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four

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

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.