A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
Arthur Conan DoyleLondon, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan DoyleI have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
Arthur Conan DoyleThere is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
Arthur Conan DoyleThere 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.
Arthur Conan Doyle