Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.