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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.

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My job is to know what other people do not know.

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Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose ...more

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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own s...more

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Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus...more

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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be deri...more

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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

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My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; th...more

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Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all r...more

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The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... ...more

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own...more