The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

You see, but you do not observe.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

The helpless can't help the helpless.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.