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

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

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

"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."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency."

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."