What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.

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.

Success is a process, not an event.

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.

I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.