He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

before men could speak they enjoyed confounding another with signsthey enjoyed this as much as a mirror enjoys an imageas much as the evening like a ship enjoys a sapphire grave

It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)

Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.

Faith does not always demand that God explains Himself.

Inside the silence is a melody.

You know, I feel that God isn't going to put something in front of me that I can't deal with.

If you don't pass through anything in life, you can't be anything.

Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.