I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

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

He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.