I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart.

No, Sherlock doesn't need another brain. But he could benefit from an extra heart.

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

John [to Sherlock]: You're incredible. A genius. A good friend. And a lousy driver.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow

Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?"[Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être.]

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese.

One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. -Sherlock Holmes

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?