I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

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.

There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

i hate how my past actions keep messing up my future choices" Seth Sorson aka " fablehaven " (my son's quote)

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy.

My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time

It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.