Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them.

I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.