Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

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.

Prayers Are Free, But Change is going to cost you.

Small daily happenings make life spectacular.... start enjoying the small things in life!

I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.

He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.

There are no plans in President-elect [Donald] Trump's policies moving forward to touch Medicare and Social Security.

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.

Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.

Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.