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

“It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.”

“Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.”

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”

“I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.”

“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different”

“Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write. - Sherlock Holmes”