As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
Anything is better than stagnation.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
A man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
A man always finds it hard to realise that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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.
A change of work is the best rest.