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To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.
“I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
“You don’t mind breaking the law?” “Not in the least.” “Nor running a chance of arrest?” “Not in a good cause.”
“As a rule,” said Holmes, “the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back to business, Watson.
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact,” he answered, laughing.
“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
