They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water.