Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

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.

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

Cannot find the comfort in this world.

Is there intelligent life on Earth?

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I'm always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.

Only we should not be influenced by the winds.

Like the children we will never ever cease to be.

Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.