Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

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 couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.

Only solitude means never having to say you’re sorry.

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, dont come along very often.

She had something down there twice as big as mine. That's why I say you better watch where you stroke, cause it could turn out, turn out to be a joke.

Research shows that happy people look for opportunity while others see only crises. Surrendering fear is healthy!

I've heard that fact, that is you eat more than six bananas it will kill you. I saw a bowl with seven bananas in it and I thought, that's dangerous.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.