"The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money."

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

"The more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be."

"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."

"The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness."