Steel True, Blade Straight.

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.

The world’s most beautiful angel is love inside your soul.

When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering.

Teach your employees how to build relationships with your customers.

The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.

If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.

When you're humble it's like wearing a beautiful flower. It inspires others. It generates energy and power.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

In logic, there are no morals.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.