My physique is very special. I don't feel tired at all when I'm working, but it would make me exhausted if I was idle.

I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

I am very active and restless. When I have nothing to do, I will become restless.

My mind rebels at stagnation.

I pursue spiritual excitement.

I crave for mental exaltation.

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? < /p>

Even the best women can never be completely trusted.

Women are never to be entirely trusted - not the best of them.

But love is an emotional thing, which is inconsistent with the calm thinking that I think is the most important thing. . I would never marry for fear of clouding my judgment.

Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, least I bias my judgment.

The influence of emotions affects the waking mind.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

Remove other factors, and what remains must be the fact.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

Have I not told you many times that when you eliminate all the impossible factors? After you get out, no matter what is left - no matter how unbelievable it is - is that the truth?

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Detection is-or should be a Exact science should be approached with the same dispassionate rather than emotional approach.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

I never make any exceptions. There are no exceptions to the law.

I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.

Wynwood Read has a good explanation of this problem. He argued that although each person is a difficult mystery, when humans are gathered together, there are laws. For example, you cannot predict a person's personality, but you can definitely know the human nature.

Personalities are different, but personality is eternal. This is what statisticians say.

Winwood Reade is good upon the subject. He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

I never guess. Guessing is a very bad habit and is harmful to logical reasoning.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty