“Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.”

“... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar”

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on”

“Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.”

“Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.”