If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

The soul is swayed by the waters.

The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.