Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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 grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
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.
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.
How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
One must wait till it comes.
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