No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

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.

Explore your own peace.

I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.