01c. 1894 ADI am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
03c. 1894 ADExactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk. Surely a gentleman should not lay much stress upon this, when a lady is in most desperate need of his help?Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
04c. 1894 ADThe statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on either side of the fireplace. Standing on the rug between us, with his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely tinged with gray, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a nobleman who is in truth noble.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
05c. 1894 ADI consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
07c. 1894 ADA man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
08c. 1894 ADWhy should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
09c. 1894 ADTo let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
10c. 1894 ADWhat is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
11c. 1894 ADNothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him: but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting- room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
12c. 1894 ADWhen once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
13c. 1894 ADWe must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
14c. 1894 ADHolmes,” I cried, “this is impossible.” “Admirable!” he said. “A most illuminating remark. It IS impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong. Yet you saw for yourself. Can you suggest any fallacy?Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
15c. 1894 ADThere were no footmarks.''Meaning that you saw none?''I assure you, sir, that there were none.''My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a flying creature. As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
16c. 1894 ADThere are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
17c. 1894 ADI fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
18c. 1894 ADEverything I have to say has already crossed your mind.""Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
19c. 1894 ADAll my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
20c. 1894 ADSherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
23c. 1894 AD...above all, do not fret until you know that you really have a cause for it.Arthur Conan Doyle / quote ↗
