The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.
It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.
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.
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion.
I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart.
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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.
There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.
