“Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.”

“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

“There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”

“Emperors, kings, artisians, peasens, big people---at the bottom we are all alike and all the same; all just alike on the inside, and when our clothes are off, nobody can tell which of us is which.”

“Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.”

“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.”