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.

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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

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Dogs don't make mistakes.

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

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

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You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

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When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

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

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

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