I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.
Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
One must wait till it comes.
It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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