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.

‎A change of work is the best rest.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

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

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.