Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

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.

Great is the love of God.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday

The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…