It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.

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

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.