Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

What one man can invent, another can discover.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.