The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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.
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.