The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.
It is more than possible; it is probable.
Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.