There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

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.

Ah God! What a loving father you are!

don't follow your dreams, chase them

If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is worse than Cancer.

I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself

Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.