A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

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.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

Love is not a mere sentiment but an instrument of ability.

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

Chaka Fattah already lost the seat in a Democratic primary. So, he's on his way out. And he formally resigned this week.

You run on the treadmill. But you need to stop watching The Food Network when you're doing it. That is how you torture yourself.

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.