Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
A poem is no place for an idea.
A smiling face is half the meal.