I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp...

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

How very wet this water is.

. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .

Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.