I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

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.

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.