There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
You know my methods. Apply them.
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.
It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.
Anything seems commonplace, once explained.
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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