The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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.

If I can create something unique in the world, so can you.

To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has trouble remembering my name.

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

No matter how bad the truth is, it doesn't tear you apart inside like dishonesty.

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.