I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through – a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
I felt Holmes’s hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. – Watson.
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o’clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. – Sherlock Holmes.
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.
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
I love and am loved by a better man than he.
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.