I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

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.

Broken things can be fixed and healed. Nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean.

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

I think because I am a proven rookie that it is going to help me in the long run.

Come on, somebody be brave.

True experiences of angels always lead to a greater unity.

Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent upon your prosperity consciousness.

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out.

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].