The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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.

Violence recoils on the violent.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.