You'll find the quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle in Quotes & Aphorisms, in Poems and in Humor.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful...
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have...
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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