The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

You see, but you do not observe.

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact,”

To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact

Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

“Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog

“This is indeed a mystery,”

“From what I have seen of the lady, she seems, indeed, to be on a very different level to your Majesty,” said Holmes coldly.

life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.