My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank God for that!” “I’m a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was the second man that was too much for me.” “What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I’ll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word.” “Good old Watson!(...)

You know my methods. Apply them.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.