“Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.”

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

“It is more than possible; it is probable.”

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

“What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.”

“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”

“Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I’ve come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search, our abiding desire for immortality.”