“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
