Kaks

“I still think Connie was a human man, a very, very good one—but a man. I have been wrong in my judgments many times before; if now I am ignorant and blind, I’m sorry, but it’s no new thing. If that should be the case though, it means that I have had great privileges in my life, perhaps more so than any man alive today. Because it means that on the fields and farms of England, on the airstrips of the desert and the jungle, in the hangars of the Persian Gulf and on the tarmacs of the southern islands, I have walked and talked with God.”
― Nevil Shute, Round the Bend

“Jack, you've debauched my sloth.”
― Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“Who has more pockets than a magician?
A boy.
Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians?
A boy's.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes