A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.