A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.