There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.