A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.