Arthur Conan Doyle

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." "Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst." "Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours." "It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you." "I never can resist a touch of the dramatic." "There 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, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes