Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

A man loses his fortune; he gains earnestness. His eyesight goes; it leads him to a spirituality...We think we are pushing our own way bravely, but there is a great Hand in ours all the time.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence.

Now that I do know it, I shall do my best to forget it.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind. Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

Someday we'll be reunited. In another world, a much better world.

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.