Arthur Conan Doyle

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. ”

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. ”

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. ”

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. ”

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

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. ”

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. ”