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

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four

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.

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.