“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can’t all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”  – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stark Munro Letters (1894)

It is a little heartening to know that each of us has that ability.  Isn’t it?  Further, I have to really like that someone who created such works as those associated with Sherlock Holmes and The Lost World felt he was limited in the impression he had or could make.  Modesty, perhaps?  A lack or awareness about the differences he did make?  I’ll leave that up to you to decide. 😉

To find out a little more about the man, please start here:

http://www.biographyonline.net/writers/arthur-conan-doyle.html