I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

You know my methods. Apply them.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.