“There is grandeur in this view of life.”
“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.”
“If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
“Work is the best antidote to sorrow.”
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
“I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.”
“You see, but you do not observe.”
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“Our two souls therefore, which are one, though I must go, endure not yet a breach, but an expansion.”
“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.”
“Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally; And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”