I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.