“He who does not wish for little things does not deserve big things.”
“He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.”
“A person who will not take care of the little things will not take care of the big things, for big things are but an accumulation of little things.”
“He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.”
“When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.”
“It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.”