"The past is never truly dead; it lives on in the present."

"The world is a stage, and we are merely players."

"Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things."

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

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."