I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

The darkness declares the glory of light.

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.