Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.”

“There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”

“The little things are infinitely the most important.”

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”

“You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.” “A proposition...”

“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.”