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

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

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

The 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.

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.