It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

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.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

Kindness has the warmth in it and it can melt a hateful heart.

If you see yourself as other people see you, it means you are lost, you don't know yourself and you have closed down a world class university of diligence!

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.

Without doubt, President [Barack] Obama is a great historical figure.

Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization.

Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.