I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.