I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.