I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man’s energy.
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
What one man can invent, another can discover.
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
What a lovely thing a rose is!
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.
My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.
Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.
No violence, gentlemen – no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.