My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

Steel True, Blade Straight.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.