I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
You see, but you do not observe.
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
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.
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
I have my own views about Nature’s methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his.