A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

Fire is fire, " Matthew said. "It burns.

I sighed immersed in a sleeping sea. A ripple that turned into waves and then storm, stirring and blending our troubled waters

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it is opinion that uses the force.

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

The path to obesity is paved with bacon and white bread; the way to skinny is built on apples and Ezekiel.

You can't measure love, it has no start it has no end

I find that when people get a script, they know within five pages if the writer can write. Once you're five pages in, it doesn't matter whose name is on the cover, you're not even thinking about it.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

You’re going to get what I think is the truth, and it’s going to be raw.

Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.