“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”

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.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.

It is the dialogue that lets the brilliance of the diamond’s infinite facets shine clearly. It is the dialogue that instills within us a power and capacity that is, and always has been, saturated with meaning.

Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.

We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling.

We all work with one infinite power.

Clearly understand that the only limitations you will ever have are the limitations you impose upon yourself. You truly do have infinite potential.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

We are here to change. We are here to grow, develop and unfold. We are progressive beings that have infinite capacity.

I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.