Arthur Conan Doyle

“London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”

“We can't command our love, but we can our actions.”

“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”

“To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”

“My mind 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. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.”

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”

“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.”

“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”