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

"Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition – of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can."

"The Germans are a brutal race, and must be crushed."

"There is no death, only a change of vibrations."

"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."