Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Arthur Conan Doyle

So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.