There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

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 pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.

The single most sacred pilgrimage you will ever make is the one right where you are.

I wish to keep writing.

The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

After wisdom comes wit.

There's just so much stuff that sounds like Flying Lotus now - I really like what he does, but I don't want to be like him. The new stuff is more experimental.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.

Knowing how to market yourself and your press materials is key.