It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.” “A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.” “You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.