To a great mind, nothing is little,? remarked Holmes, sententiously.
I followed you.? I saw no one.? That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.
We can but try.
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
Accounts are not quite settled between us,” said she, with a passion that equaled my own. “I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.
To a great mind nothing is little.
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
It saved me from ennui,” he answered, yawning. “Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
My mind rebels from stagnation, give me problems, give me work. Give me the most abtruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my proper atmosphere.
I never remember feeling tired by work. though idleness exhausts me completely.
It is easy to be wise after the event.
I shall never do that,′ I answered; ’you have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.
It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, – a factor in a problem. – Sherlock Holmes.