No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.