The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
From Arthur Conan Doyle
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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