Character: Nero Wolfe. Page 2

Just amazed how often adults residing in their right mind, think they can conceal facts that are easily checked.

... a guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality.

Of course, the machine is a machine, and in itself neither cruel nor treacherous it can not be, but the man sitting behind the wheel, certainly a cruel and treacherous.

The man who thinks he knows everything, actually knows nothing.

... solving crimes is not so much a science as an art.