“I never guess. It is a shocking habit - destructive to the logical faculty.”

“if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.”

“We're at close grips at last," said Holmes as we walked together across the moor. "What a nerve the fellow has! How he pulled himself together in the face of what must have been a paralyzing shock when he found that the wrong man had fallen a victim to his plot. I told you in London, Watson, and I tell you now again, that we have never had a foeman more worthy of our steel.”

“That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.”

“You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.”

“I never remember feeling tired by work. though idleness exhausts me completely.”

“I shall never do that,' I answered; 'you have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.”