Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

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.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. 'It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer. If you worry the microbes too much they may worry you. I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either. There was, of course, the well-known instance of Liston and the aneurism; and a dozen others that I could mention.'

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

It is all in the way of professional experience.

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.