Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

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.

Respect is not an obligation nor a favour, it takes a bigger person to give or show some whether it is returned or not.

If everyone would've been childlike, not childish, the world would've be a better place.

Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

The truth is, rarely can a response make something better - what makes something better is connection.

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

A simple I love you means more than money.

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities.

I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.

Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.