“Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)”

“Blah, said Toad.”

“Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”

“The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine!”

“You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.”

“All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.”

“Up the still, glistening beaches,Up the creeks we will hie,Over banks of bright seaweedThe ebb-tide leaves dry.We will gaze, from the sand-hills,At the white, sleeping town;At the church on the hill-side—And then come back down.Singing: "There dwells a loved one,But cruel is she!She left lonely for everThe kings of the sea.(from poem 'The Forsaken Merman')”