“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”

“The wise man must become a friend of the truth, not a fanatic of the concepts that are believed by many to be true only.”

“We need books… because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.”

“Was there anything so loathsome as a wilfully innocent man? Hardly. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.”

“I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper air-planes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.”

“But, true, I’ve wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.”

“Friend Ralph, thou hast
Outrun the constable at last.”

“A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart;
But it's innocence and modesty
that polished the dart.”

“The fragrant hair,
Falling as through the silence falleth now
Dusk of the air.”

“He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.”