My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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.
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.
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
You know my methods. Apply them.
It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.
I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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.
It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.
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