I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind.
Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn’t we use a little art jargon? There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger – not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
You know my methods. Apply them.
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one’s powers than the other.
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.
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
I have taken to living by my wits.
It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
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.