“My man is an ogre and there is nothing he likes better than boys broiled on toast.”

“Better build schoolrooms for "the boy"
Than cells and gibbets for "the man."”

“The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach,
The Ogre cannot master Speech:
About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.”

“It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that… Magnus.”

“Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.”

“There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”

“For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.”
Omnium autem rerum, ex quibus aliquid adquiritur, nihil est agri cultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius.

“Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.”