“If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.”

“If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.”

“It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.”

“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.”

“She said, "You might become politicians.""No!" cried Beni, with sudden fierceness; "we must not abandon our high calling. Bandits we have always been, and bandits we must remain!”

“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.”

“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”