To A Great Mind, Nothing Is Little,'

On Glancing Over My Notes Of The Seventy Odd Cases In Which I Have During The Last Eight Years Studied The Methods Of My Friend Sherlock Holmes, I Find Many Tragic, Some Comic, A Large Number Merely Strange, But None Commonplace; For, Working As He Did Rather For The Love Of His Art Than For The Acquirement Of Wealth, He Refused To Associate Himself With Any Investigation Which Did Not Tend Towards The Unusual, And Even The Fantastic.

Everything Comes In Circles. [...] The Old Wheel Turns, And The Same Spoke Comes Up. It's All Been Done Before, And Will Be Again.

The Setting Is A Worthy One, If The Devil Did Desire To Have A Hand In The Affairs Of Men.

There Are Always Some Lunatics About. It Would Be A Dull World Without Them.

Streams May Spring From One Source, And Yet Some Be Clear And Some Be Foul.