Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

asleep to rummage in their minds

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.