Arthur Conan Doyle

Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

Some fumes which are not poisonous would be a welcome change.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry.

But I have reasons to suppose that this opinion would be very much more frank and valuable if he imagines that we are alone.

I give you my word that for three days I have tasted neither food nor drink until you were good enough to pour me out that glass of water. But it is the tobacco which I find most irksome.

"I followed you.""I saw no one.""That is what you may expect to see when I follow you."

We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

I have heard your reasons and regard them as unconvincing and inadequate. We will pass that.

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

Surely the clearest proof of it is that, knowing what I know, I have sent for you and not for the police.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.