There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

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

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

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes