Fennel Hudson Quote

But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... (Afterward)

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses...