Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.[A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.]
There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it.
One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old lovers are the worst.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts.
If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.
