Arthur Conan Doyle

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

A 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.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.