Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.

You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

"I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.