David

“To form correct views of individuals we must regard them as forming parts of a great whole — we must measure them by their relation to the mass of beings by whom they are surrounded, and, in contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us, we must rather consider the general bearing of the whole narrative, than the respective probability of its details.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“No man ever crossed me and was the better for it." "So many have said so, and yet here I am," said Holmes, smiling.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection

“It is my business to know things. That is my trade.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection

“learned something in that schoolroom of sorrow where our earthly lessons are taught.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection