Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from Sherlock Holmes! -- Volume 4

Let's see, Volume 4 of this series makes it a “Top Forty” of sage conclusions about life from the greatest of all detectives. Maybe these quotations will be enough to take you in a hansom cab back through the fogs of London to the 21B Baker Street digs of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson...where the game is always afoot!

And, for handy reference, here are the previous posts: Volume 1; Volume 2; and Volume 3.

1. “Crime is common. Logic is rare.”

2. “Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”

3. “It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.”

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

5. “Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.”

6. “We can but try - the motto of the firm.”

7. “Idleness exhausts me completely.”

8. “An Eley's No. 2 [pistol] is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots.”

9. “There are always some lunatics about.”

10. “These are much deeper waters than I had thought.”