Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.