I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

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.

Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.

I wish I’d played my whole career in flag football.

Don't compete for the moment, compete for the future.

Life change for us every single week so.. It's good but I know this aint the peak though.

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.