“Make the matter even more terrible than the truth”

“It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?”

“It is not the cold which makes me shiver”

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

“The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.”

“You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”“A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.”“You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.”

“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”