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

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

You see, but you do not observe.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

The game is afoot.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.

Anything is better than stagnation.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

Always falling but not for anything.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

I’m used to falling, calling out timber right before the impact.

She’s hard to get but she’s worth it.

Please, don’t listen all the hate and take a little break to fall in love with you.

Aviation records don’t fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.