A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

Right thinking is your best light in this dark universe

Once the body has atrophied, you will become vulnerable to many conditions.

Jesus has not promised to build your ministry

You have to imagine things before you can do them. Stories help us see.

Letter home from college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."

You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.