“The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.”

“‎A change of work is the best rest.”

“Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.”

“We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.”

“See the value of imagination. It is the one quality which Inspector Gregory lacks. We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. Let us proceed.”

“I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.The Man from Archangel”

“[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.”