The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

It is all in the way of professional experience.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

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.