I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

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.

La libertad nos mantiene volando alto, pero la contienda destruye nuestra habilidad de volar.

It looks like a funeral parlour in here. Am I dead?

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

We never know what we are talking about.

But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.

Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.