If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

I have taken to living by my wits.

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.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.