I am inclined to think -' said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

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.

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

The past informs the present.

XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating… even awe-inspiring, but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

If you ask God to show you those who are most in need of help, you might be surprised by what he will reveal.

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.

In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.