It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.