I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.

‎A change of work is the best rest.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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