Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.

I believe in anything that works.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

All things lie dark in possibility.