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

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

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

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.