Arthur Conan Quotes on World (3 Quotes)

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, returned my companion, bitterly. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.

Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.