Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.