Sherlock Holmes Collection

Интеллект, характер, душа. Чем больше узнаешь жизнь, тем лучше чувствуешь разницу между этими понятиями.

Моя обязанность - только установить истину.

Протяжённость времени измеряется нашими впечатлениями

– В Альпах настоящее столпотворение, – сказал он. – Кроме Эвереста не осталось ни одного места, где можно насладиться одиночеством.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

As I watched him I was irresistibly reminded of a pure-blooded well-trained foxhound as it dashes backwards and forwards through the covert, whining in its eagerness, until it comes across the lost scent.

From a drop of water a logical man could understand oceans and waterfalls without having ever seen or heard of them.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”

“What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”