The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

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.

For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living

Myths have a very long memory.

It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.

Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.

Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.