Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

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

Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.