“You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.”
“Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.”
“She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You’ll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.”
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live”
“Once you learn how to die you learn how to live”
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”