“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”

I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.

Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

The combination of me and Raftaar sharing screen space together is in itself fire!

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

I bet my words are still tangled beneath that streetlight fighting for the right combination to stay.

It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.

Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.

I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.