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.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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.