You see, but you do not observe.

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.

Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.

The peak of happiness is attained when a person has accepted to be what he is.

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

Eventually you're going to have a digital transfer anyway when you make a CD, so it doesn't matter as long as what you're hitting first is what you want it to be.

where I wholly love I wholly trust.

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.