I have learned never to ridicule any man’s opinion, however strange it may seem.
Unwelcome truths are not popular.
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.