The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Come at once if convenient -- if inconvenient come all the same. S. H.

There is surely nothing in life more painful than to meet the wreck of a fine athlete whom one has known in his prime.

a real aristocrat of crime with a superficial suggestion of afternoon tea and all the cruelty of the grave behind it.

when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

the plants had been allowed to find the way of Nature rather than of art.