“It pays to save things'...Templeton the rat from Chalotte's web.”

“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”

“The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. The intelligence, the deadliness, and, most surprisingly, the pain. This rat was not like Fangor and Shed. He was much more complicated and much more dangerous. For the first time in the Underland, Gregor felt completely out of his league. If he fought this rat, he wouldn't stand a change. He would lose. He would be dead.”

“Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.”

“There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.”

“The love of a good woman can save a man" I remember Gabriel saying. "Or it can drive him to fits of unspeakable madness.”

“There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.”