“I am killed them quick, but they are killing me slow. [Jim Browner in 'The Adventure of the Cardboard Box']”

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudoIpse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”

“Watson: When do we start?Holmes: You are not coming.Watson: Then you are not going. I give you my word of honour - and I never broke it in my life - that I will take a cab straight to the police station and give you away unless you let me share this adventure with you.”

“I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather -- that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times. ~ Sherlock Holmes”

“Perchance you shall, fair sir," said Nigel, "for all that I have seen of you fills me with this desire to go further with you. It is in my mind that we might turn this thing to profit and to honour, for when Sir Robert has spoken to you, I am free to do with you as I will.”

“I love and am loved by a better man than he.”

“I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”