No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.