Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

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

Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.