Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

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

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.