Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

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.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

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