I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
One must wait till it comes.
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.
The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
Anything is better than stagnation.
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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.
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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.
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
Anything seems commonplace, once explained.
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