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.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.