Quotes on Study In Scarlet

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.