On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.
Arthur Conan DoyleA man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
Arthur Conan DoyleCritics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
Arthur Conan DoyleThe ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
Arthur Conan Doyle