Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
stars firefly spirit
His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
love risk age
Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.
mind may faults
Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
issues nails boots
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.
use stills comrade
A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
fifty reason
There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
time sight alternatives
We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
strong men weak-man
When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
learning men specialists
All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
water soul
The soul is swayed by the waters.
order cities evil
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.
literature moments obscure
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one,
europe darkness brain
When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.
speak
I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.