It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.