Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
coffee land sandwiches
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
rocks water gazing
As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.
boys simple men
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.
humanity matter ifs
I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
thinking doctors holmes
I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
world needs ghost
The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
darkness seems
It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.
inspirational life important
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
education mistake science
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
mistake lying special
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.
light may hounds
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
love-is emotional cold
But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
men cities mind
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.
two old-friends wish
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.