Sherlock Holmes - "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

"In solving a problem of this sort, the grant thing is to be able to reason backwards."

"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."

"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner."

"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."

"Breadth of view is one of the essentials of our profession. The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extrodinary interest."

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

"Come Watson, Come, the game is afoot!"

"There is nothing like first-hand evidence."

"One should always look for a possible alternative and provide against it. It is the first rule of crimminal investigation."

"We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination."

What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which reason is as for from an answer as ever."

"I have a turn both for observation and for deduction."

"One true inference invariably suggests others."

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"It is of the highest importance in the art of dectection to be able to recognize out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated."

"My mind rebels at stagnation."

"There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before."

"Intense mental concentration has a curious way of blotting out what has passed."

"I never guess. It is a shocking habit--destructive to the logical faculty."

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

"You can never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remains constant."

"You see, but you do not observe."

"It is my business to know things. Perhaps, I have trained myself to see what others overlook."

Baker Street "I crave for mental exaltation."

"There are many ciphers which I would read as easily as I do the apocrypha of the agony column; such crude devices amuse the intelligence without fatiguing it."