You see, but you do not observe.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.