“There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.”

“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams”

“I rose from marsh mudalgae, equisetum, willows,sweet green, noisybirds and frogs.”

“I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.”

“It would be sad and wrong in so many ways to self-combust at this time.”

“The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo, the belief that you are never wrong. Believing you are never wrong is an error that afflicts great men. I have learned that to be right you must first be wrong many times. Without making errors--and learning from them--a man cannot find the truth.”