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…

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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact...

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact...

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit...

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit...

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be...

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be...

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it...

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it...

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may...

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may...

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always...

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always...

In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I...

In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I...

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

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

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

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone,...

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone,...

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk,...

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk,...

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

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

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