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

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

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

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.