Arthur Conan Doyle

while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker.

“This is indeed a mystery,”

“Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog

l air of dissipation which would have made his own person the fitting object of a Scotland Yard investigation. He was immensely tickled by his own adventures, and laughed heartily as he recounted them

his eyes fell upon

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

Holmes shrugged his shoulders. “I have hitherto confined my investigations to this world,” said he. “In a modest way I have combated evil, but to take on the Father of Evil himself would, perhaps, be too ambitious a task. Yet you must admit that the footmark is material.”

Why should he not go to the home of his fathers?”

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes