“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
― His Last Bow
― His Last Bow
“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
― The Sign of Four
― The Sign of Four
“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
― A Study in Scarlet
― A Study in Scarlet
“No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes”
― The Sign of Four
― The Sign of Four
“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
― A Study in Scarlet
― A Study in Scarlet
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