Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

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.

Words rarely answer what the heart suffers, but there is a God who does.

Or, maybe what really mattered was that game of Crazy 8s.

When one sleeps on the floor, one need not fear falling out of bed.

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

I respect a lot of people I don't agree with.

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

Some people wait for a miracle to start living their lives happily. Others, use that time and create the miracle themselves.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.