“He was never more sinister than when he was most polite...”

“I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. ”

“Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.”

“After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.”

“Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.”

“I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?”

“A child should never go to bed, they only wake up a day older.”