Sherlock Holmes

My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.

“The ideal reasoner,” he remarked, “would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from

"I would not tell them too much," said Holmes. "Women are never to be entirely trusted—not the best of them." I did not pause to argue over this atrocious sentiment.

mind, would go for days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his data were insufficient.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

I think we'll shut that window again, if you don't mind. It is a singular thing, but I find that a concentrated atmosphere helps a concentration of thought. I have not pushed it to the length of getting into a box to think, but that is the logical outcome of my convictions.

I beg that you will look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual problem.

“If you won’t tell us the bet is off, that is all. But I’m always ready to back my opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the bird I ate is country bred.”

a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.