Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

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.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

You must know life to see decay.

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.