"The public is an old baby. It likes to be told a story."

"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."

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

"Every man has his own secret sorrows, which the world knows not."

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