Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

"The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated."

"To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles."

"Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men. Sherlock Holmes"

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

"Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance like some fantastic landscape in a dream. Baskerville sat for a long time, his gaze fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep."

"... Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--"Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first" Asked Holmes, with some asperity."To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly."Then had you not better consult him"I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--"Just a little," said Holmes."

"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."

"The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"