From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

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.

Honesty is a very choosy virtue

Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.

There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.

My choices are like my fingerprints, they make me unique

It feels good to be fit and strong.

You lose your way when you lose your why.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath