The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time. ~ The Stark Munro Letters
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror." ~ A Study in Scarlet
"It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact." ~ A Study in Scarlet
"That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed." ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles
"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last." ~ The Adventure of the Red Circle
"From the point of view of the criminal expert," said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty." ~ The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
"Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared." ~ His Last Bow
"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person." ~ Silver Blaze
"We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination." ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles
"Work is the best antidote to sorrow." ~ The Adventure of the Empty House
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