Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

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.

Peace is a blue skyWith gentle and kind breezeFilled with love and joyWhich we can dwell and share.

Time to the face the music,

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree.

In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

I like to see the smiles on people's faces when I show them I can do the impossible.

Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.