There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

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.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.