What one man can invent, another can discover.

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.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Sometimes your wish can become chaos ... be careful what you wish for!

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

We have come too far to go back, my friends.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.

When you play the young girl a lot, you can be in the movie a lot and have nothing to do.

Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.