The Soul Is Swayed By

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.

Art In The Blood Is Liable To Take The Strangest Forms.

Do You Know, Watson," Said He, "that It Is One Of The Curses Of A Mind With A Turn Like Mine That I Must Look At Everything With Reference To My Own Special Subject. You Look At These Scattered Houses, And You Are Impressed By Their Beauty. I Look At Them, And The Only Thought Which Comes To Me Is A Feeling Of Their Isolation And Of The Impunity With Which Crime May Be Committed There.

It Has Long Been An Axiom Of Mine That The Little Things Are Infinitely The Most Important.

I Feel That There Is Reason Lurking In You Somewhere, So We Will Patiently Grope Round For It.