Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
passion picnics firsts
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
religious pain support
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.
spring men light
It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.
art free-education accomplishment
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.
business names people
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
flower smell giving
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
links life-is chains
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
waiting heroism done
There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
horse past ears
What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.
holmes watson ifs
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
life obvious-things world
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
people soul violence
Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
life book numbers
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
silly character strange
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.