Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

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.

I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.

Prose divides shame into stations.

I always thought I'd make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then I met David, and he had experience with kids and wanted to have a family, too.

Be loyal to your boss, your company, your co-workers. Someone is always listening.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

Most of the world around you doesn't read the Bible. So... God gives the world a living epistle- you.

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy

I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.