if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

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

If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.