You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must have been one.
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.[to Sherlock]
