It would be superfluous todrive us mad, my dear Watson

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.

Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written.

Spirituality nourishes the soul.

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

The vision of your tomorrow that you have today strengthens you for the morrow

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

I instantly like people who laugh at my jokes. It's a weakness of mine.

It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.