You people have no imagination!

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.