More quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."
"Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion."
"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."
"There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done."
"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."