Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

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

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.