Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

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.

Have high hopes for the future

It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one.

We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.