A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)

by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘Here is a gentleman of a medical type, but with the air of a military man. Clearly an army doctor, then. He has just come from the tropics, for his face is dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, for his wrists are fair. He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly. His left arm has been injured. He holds it in a stiff and unnatural manner. Where in the tropics could an English army doctor have seen much hardship and got his arm wounded? Clearly in Afghanistan.’

Sherlock Holmes' analysis of Dr. Watson.

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

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

"A fool always finds a sofer who admires him."

“Why,” I cried, “you have an aortic aneurism!”

Jefferson Hope is expected to die soon from aortic aneurism.

Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.’”

"The public hisses at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and simultaneously contemplate the money in my chest."