"Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman." <i>[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]</i> - Arthur Conan Doyle

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.