Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

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.

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

If hell is to roam, then i've got hell to pave.

I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

I've been a babe magnet for quite a while now.

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.