There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

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.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

Beauty isn't made of sugar.

Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught up in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.

He who helps you in your worst moment well deserves to be your best hero!

I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.