Anything is better than stagnation.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

It is more than possible; it is probable.

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