There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.