Arthur Conan Doyle: Thing

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.”

“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different”

“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.”

“But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.”

“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder”

“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts.”