A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

“You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of stories.”

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.”

“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,” he remarked with a smile. “It’s a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”

a study in scarlet,

There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

‘Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.’”