My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.Sherlock Holmes
I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco.Sherlock Holmes
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.Dr. James Mortimer
It is out of the idleness of such a mind, occupied by busy spiders, that tragedies are woven.Sherlock Holmes
There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricitySherlock Holmes
My practice has extended recently to the ContinentSherlock Holmes
Without glancing at me he tore the paper in two and tossed it down into the grate. 'There,' said he, 'was the end of that sinister romance.'Sherlock Holmes
His voice was sonorous and terrible, and his eyes glowed like two circles of flameNarration
Can you ask, my dear Watson, what the word Lau might stand for?Sherlock Holmes
Good morning, Mr. Holmes,' said he, 'have you anything fresh to go upon this morning?'Dr. Leon Sterndale