If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.