Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson, said Holmes in a reminiscent voice. It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet pr...
I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’‘Not in the least,’ I answered in a...
Evil indeed is the man without one woman to mourn him.
Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
Women have seldom have been an attraction to me, for my brain has always governed my heart.
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go...
What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any fun...
That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth traveled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.‘You...
Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him: but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting- room, hardly uttering a...
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
The sweat from his dripping brow. But these slaves—look at them! Some are captured Romans, some Sicilians, many black Libyans, but all are in the last exhaustion, their weary eyelids drooped over thei...
Populus me sibilat at mihi plaudo ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca
Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)
Perchance you shall, fair sir, said Nigel, for all that I have seen of you fills me with this desire to go further with you. It is in my mind that we might turn this thing to profit and to honour, for...
Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a lark while I mediated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind.
Como a las polillas, a todos nos gusta revolotear en torno a la luz.
You can understand,' said Holmes very suavely, 'that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours.
There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.