“It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.”

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”

“You may have noticed how extremes call to each other, the spiritual to the animal, the caveman to the angel. You never saw a worse case than this.”

“The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.”

“..There is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being”

“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder”

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”