The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

“As a rule,” said Holmes, “the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be.

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact,”

let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellow men.”