The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

I love and am loved by a better man than he.