Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.