There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?
It is more than possible; it is probable.
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence...
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered.
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?No, indeed!You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged.My dear fellow! I congrat-To Milverton's housemaid.My dear Holmes!I wanted information, Watson.
Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen. (Goethe)—We are used to see that Man mocks what he never comprehends.
There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
It was a wild, tempestuous night, towards the close of November. Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscripti...
It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.
He said that there were no traces upon the ground round the body. He did not observe any. but I did - some little distance off, but fresh and clearFootprints?A man's or a woman's?Dr. Mortimer looked s...