No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. 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 really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.