To underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.
A forced marriage is no marriage.
Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details. My friend Watson could tell you that I spent a whole morning in that exercise. It is no easy matter, and requires a strong and practiced arm.
Crime is common. Logic is rare.
She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men.
Era, por tanto, libre como una alondra -es decir, todo lo libre que se puede ser con un ingreso diario de once chelines y medio-.
Nuestra mente debe ser tan libre como la misma naturaleza”- Sherlock Holmes, Estudio en escarlata.
Stand with me here upon the terrace, for it may be the last quiet talk that we shall ever have.
What a blind beetle I have been, not to draw my conclusion. And what is your conclusion? Only that it is a remarkable cow which walks, canters, and gallops.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.