An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

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.

Beauty Is In The Mind of The Beholder.

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way.

Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil

I have a very, very good life. I'm grateful for all of my friends, my family and the life that I have, and the possibilities in my future.

What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart...and your father casts you out...and you fall.

You're only as smart as your ERA.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.