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

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.