I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.