You see, but you do not observe.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.