Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

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.

Do not focus on the problem. Pray for strength to persevere.

The Holy Spirit accompanies God's Word to bring revelation of Christ, resulting in transformation.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

If people want me to be their role-model, it would be nice.

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

The midfield picks itself - Beckham, Scholes, Gerrard and A N Other.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place.