"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

"Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do."

"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."

"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."

"I have always been a great admirer of Hercule Poirot."