There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.