My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

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

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

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