Peregrine

“The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise.”
― Victor Hugo

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To the crowd, success wears almost the features of true mastery, and the greatest dupe of this counterfeit talent is History.”
― Victor Hugo

“You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do. . . .”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea