Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
brain racing pieces
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
giving mind rebel
My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
medicine fiction fancy
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'
mind littles great-minds
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
hands weather trying
There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.
gentleman furniture violence
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
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.
running blank-mind steps
Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.
holmes cases persons
Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
love good-night doors
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.
heart wedding-anniversary most-romantic
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
horse middle ends
horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle
crime bigger obvious
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
inspirational truth philosophy
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.