"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person." ~ Silver Blaze
"We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination." ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles
"Work is the best antidote to sorrow." ~ The Adventure of the Empty House
"Only one important thing has happened in the last three days, and that is that nothing has happened." ~ The Adventure of the Second Stain
"It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?" ~ The Valley of Fear
"The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again." ~ The Valley of Fear
Yet when we think how narrow and how devious this path of Nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-paths into which the human spirit may wander. ~ Lot No. 249
Like so many who are themselves robust, he was apt to confuse the constitution with the character, to ascribe to want of principle what was really a want of circulation. ~ Lot No. 249
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