No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

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

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.