The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?