The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

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.

Listening to your heartbeats, I will fall asleep.

It is not truth but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard.

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.

Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.

Focus on opportunities, not problems.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.