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.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.