It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

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.