As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

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

I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.