You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.