The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

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

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)