Book: A study in scarlet. Page 1

If we are to have a roommate, I would rather a quiet person and his business occupied.

Life is much more amazing than all that is able to create the human mind.

The world was not, and no man, devoted to solving crimes so much perseverance and natural talent, like me.

Theories put forward to explain the laws of nature, must be unique as nature itself.

The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it is not accompanied by some special circumstances that could be grounds for reasoning.

Holmes is too obsessed with science - is it already borders on callousness. Can easily imagine that he would sprynet his friend a small dose of some newly discovered vegetable alkaloid, not out of malice, but just out of curiosity, to have a clear idea of its action. However, I must give him justice, I'm sure he would take the shot himself. He has a passion for definite and exact knowledge.

Genius is an infinite endurance.

You know, because "to know mankind, the proper study of man."

Revenge is not sweet, if he does not know by whose hand he dies and what is punishment. According to my plan, the one who wronged me was to learn that his old sin.

The head is designed not only for decoration, it is sometimes necessary to think.

To speculate without knowing all the circumstances of the case, the largest error. This may affect further reasoning.

The human brain is like a little empty attic, which you can arrange as you want. Fool dragged there of junk and useful things have nowhere to stick, or at best they will not dig. A sensible person carefully selects what he will be placed in your attic. He will take only what he needed for work and all laid out in perfect order. In vain people think that this little room, elastic walls...

Fool fool always inspires admiration.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.