“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”

Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

It is more than possible; it is probable.

Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

It is my business to know what other people do not know.

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

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

The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.

I wrote many poems about her and held her so close to my heart that she did not even knew a place there.

You keep me at a distance when all I want to have you is close.

The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

I don’t want to show my body to the ones, who often close their eyes, when it’s time to praise the beauty of my mind and soul.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.