Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

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