“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.”

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

What one man can invent, another can discover.

I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

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

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.