Arthur Conan Doyle — "The world is full of wonders, if only we open our eyes."

"Man is an ape, and woman is a cat."

"I have no patience with the arguments of atheists."

"Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition – of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can."

"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine o…"

"I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."