“You know my methods. Apply them, and it will be instructive to compare results.”

“His labor in these years...must have been great; the pushing and pulling strong and continual. The good plan itself,…

“Will you go with me?”

“I’m angry.”

“I consider it the greatest privilege to have been permitted to study your methods of working. I confess that they…

“If this is a pep talk, it needs work.”

Of the real thoughts and feelings of the criminal, of the terrible fascination which binds him to his nefarious career,…

“Okay, so, you’ve already made one miscalculation—how is the rest of your math going?”

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories,…

“’Now Watson,’ he added as our client hurried away, ‘he will set the regular forces on the move. We are, as usual, the…

Mz. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. “Well I never!” said he. “I thought at first that you had done something clever, but…

“She was my protégé. Her departure from my life was only a matter of time.”

“The matter is a perfectly trivial one”—he jerked his thumb in the direction of the old hat—”but there are points in…

“You okay?”

“I can see how it would drive someone to murder.”

“Should you care to add the case to your annals, my dear Watson,” said Holmes that evening, “it can only be as an…

“So how about you tell us the truth, and we’ll all just agree that you’ve suffered enough?”

“On paper, you’re utterly disposable.”

“Then you use me, and yet do not trust me!” I cried with some bitterness. “I think that I have deserved better at your…

“But you asked me for my help.”