It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

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.

You may be a poet and not even know it.

Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology?

at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved…

yoga is the science of reality

That space between the white lines - that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever

Revenge produces nothing in the end. Even if you hate someone enough to kill them, you won't be saved from it. Always face forward. Walk down the path that has light.