Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

"No ghosts need"

"When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth."

"Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it."

"When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder"

"One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott’s heroes still may strut, Dickens’s delightful Cockneys still raise a laugh, and Thackeray’s worldlings continue to carry on their reprehensible careers. Perhaps in some humble corner of such a Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated."

"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."

"Anything is better than stagnation."

"The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone."

"There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy."

"The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest."

"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."