One must wait till it comes.
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.
The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
Anything is better than stagnation.
Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
Anything seems commonplace, once explained.
My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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