“Never mind. I knew — that was the great thing.”

“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

“The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.”

“Never wage war on religion, nor upon seemingly holy institutions, for this thing has too great a force upon the minds of fools.”

“And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.”

“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”

“That was other thing I hated about kids; they always said the exact things that deep down you already knew, would never admit, and most certainly never wanted to hear.”

“I had no idea Gwendolen knew any foreign languages, and I am not sure that I approve. It's the sort of thing that can only broaden a girl's mind.”

“Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.”

“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”