Quotes from book

The Sign of the Four

“The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.”

“My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!”

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,, must be the truth?”

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

“You know my methods. Apply them.”

“… while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”

“The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”

“No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes”

“You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?"
"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.”