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• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
  A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with alot of other things, so that he has difficulty in laying his hands upon it....
• But in calling Moriarty a criminal you are uttering libel in the eyes of the law, and there lies the glory and the wonder of it.
  The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every devilry, the controlling brain of the underworld....
• All history shows that every man who has authority is led to abuse i
  he does not stop until he comes up against limitations....
• A strange enigma is man!" "Someone calls him a soul concealed in an animal," I suggested.
  "Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes....
• BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think.
  That which distinguishes the man who is content to _be_ something from the man who wishes to _do_ something....
• Give me a man that laughs all the time, though the rest of the world's in a rut.
  Yes, show me a man that laughs all the time, and, my friend, I'll show you a nut!...
• Don't you see? This whole trial is a conspiracy concocted by Bill Gates.
  He knows that he stands to make even more billions if Microsoft is broken up into Baby Bills....
• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
  They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave....