The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it, you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

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

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

The soul is swayed by the waters.