I shall never do that,' I answered; 'you have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world. - Arthur Conan Doyle

"We're at close grips at last," said Holmes as we walked together across the moor. "What a nerve the fellow has! How he pulled himself together in the face of what must have been a paralyzing shock when he found that the wrong man had fallen a victim to his plot. I told you in London, Watson, and I tell you now again, that we have never had a foeman more worthy of our steel."

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when
they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.