I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.