“At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.”

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

It is more than possible; it is probable.

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

It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

It is my business to know what other people do not know.

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

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

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn’t matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

When did our need to overpower one another, outgrow our desire to love?

I cause destruction everywhere I go I’m a wildfire gentle is not my nature.

Most of the narcissists are geniuses and masters of Psychology. But they are using their knowledge to eradicate, rather than to help humanity.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.