Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

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 live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

The beginning of Eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And the end of every place. What am I?

Do noble things do not dream them all day long.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

Is there stop 'n' go counseling for couples on the run?

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.

One little light can light 10,000

I almost died and everyday, I wish I did.

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.