|Sherlock considers|

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

Yes, the setting is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men… Then you are yourself inclining to the supernatural explanation.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual'. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but peopledo not practise itmuch. In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. This is an interesting analysis.

there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowingout the useful ones.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.

"It is not easy to express the inexpressible," he answered with a laugh.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure. Arthur Conan Doyle

You mentioned your name, as if I should recognize it, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.