“All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.”

“Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.”

“It would have really cramped my future plans had I died. (Nick)”

“It is not the man of great native talent who wins, but he who pushes his talent however small to its utmost capacity.”

“It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that."And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.”

“The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people--and that music does not have a better reputation...For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!...A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not--but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes--bad, if he always stays in the same place. If the archbishop would trust me, I would soon make his music famous; that is surely true.”