“I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.”

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

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

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

To a great mind, nothing is little.

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

A dog reflects the family life.

Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

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.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.