I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

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.

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

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.