Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves