I love and am loved by a better man than he.

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.

Women are always being asked when they're going to have children. It's a question they're asking even more often.

The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word.

Want to be a better leader? Meditate in the morning and prepare yourself for the day ahead.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up

Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul