It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.